Teresa Jordan, professor of engineering, says that urban areas face greater challenges as “You’re making holes where probably, in a populated city, there are already lots of other facilities using the area under the ground. They’ve already buried all sorts of stuff under the sidewalks, under buildings. To go in and just start digging, is a huge organizational challenge.” 

“It would be a crucial success,” says Alexander Colvin, dean of the ILR School, about the organization of a union at Tesla. “It’d be up there with successful organizing Amazon (AMZN).” 

Charles K. Whitehead, professor of business law, writes this opinion piece arguing that companies should be required to disclose their ties to Russia. 

Andrew Karolyi, dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, explains why getting rid of Russian assets is difficult for U.S. fund managers. 

Michael Dorf, professor of law, says “subbing one Democratic appointee for another doesn’t change the fundamental dynamics on the court.”  

Desirée LeClercq, assistant professor in the ILR School, writes this piece about the course of action President Biden should take in enacting sanctions by learning from past mistakes. 

Rachel Bezner-Kerr, professor of global development, is a co-author oon the latest report out of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 

Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history, discusses the difficulties of implementing successful sanctions on a country with a large economy, like Russia. 

Tasha Lewis, associate professor in the department of human centered design, says “brands create blends [of fibers] to achieve a certain type of garment, but are not thinking about end of life of that garment.”

According to a new “Labor Action Tracker” report out of the ILR School, 140,000 workers went on strike in 2021.

This piece on the growing number of deconstruction policies in cities across the U.S. mentions the work of Felix Heisel, assistant professor of architecture and director of the Circular Construction Lab at Cornell. Heisel and his team are deconstructing a 110-year-old home to see whether the local economy can handle a deconstruction ordinance. 

“High-quality data clearly shows infection decreases when workers have access to sick leave,” says Nicolas Ziebarth, associate professor of policy analysis and management. “It prevents contagious workers from coming to work.”